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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781893410633
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
ISBN: 1893410633
Label: Picture This!
Manufacturer: Picture This!
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Picture This!
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 58760
Studio: Picture This!
Theatrical Release Date: July 22, 2004
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A dissapointment...to say the least...
First of all, the picture shown here is not at all the one you will see
on the dvd; secondly, I find it profoundly disturbing that amazon com would even suggest, among it's "relevant" tags, descriptions such as "gay, full frontal nudity, boys nude", well..see for yourself; I wouldn't have ordered it if I would have read these false tags; there is no gay subject matter, no unnecessary nudity, none of those titillating adjectives amazon uses to attract what one may wonder: weirdoes?
Getting back to the movie, it is well made, well photographed, well acted for sure but again, I find it very strange that such praise is written in the sense of "heartwarming, refreshing".
It is nothing of the sort; two little boys are bored; it's summer and they cant afford to go to camp like their friends; so they stay home,
nothing much to do, nothing much to say;(been there, done that, like most kids); one of the boys is brutally beaten by his older "thug" brother, a very disturbing scene; I dont care for that fake "cinéma vérité"; I wont tell you how the movie ends, not to kill your buzz but it's not a happy ending, typical of the french who take the long road around to say absolutely nothing new or significant, most of the time. I'm being harsh, I know, but I've had my fill of cinematic nonsense.
If you like that old style mock "cinéma d'auteur", by all means, waste your money. But if you expect, like Le Figaro says (I cant imagine why)
that it is "refreshing ... Read More
Rating:  - It was ok
This was ok the plot was interesting, acting decent. There were some good moments. Deals with a poor dysfunctional family. If you are hoping to see more of the guy on the cover you won't, he is just a supporting actor.
Rating:  - A Completely Delightful and Tender Little Film About Disenfranchised Kids
'Fais-moi des vacances' (WE NEED A VACATION) is a finely wrought little film that studies the disparities between the classes in France while introducing us to a warmly tender and humorous friendship between two young lads. Directed and written by Didier Bivel (with writing assistance from Djamila Djabri) it offers a slice of life we rarely see - that underbelly of France's projects where mixed races strive to exist without the amenities of those with means who surround their neighborhoods.
Lucien (Aymen Saïdi) lives with his father (Bernard Blancan), mother (Hiam Abbass), young sister Pamela (Laura Mas Navarro), and his tough streetwise older brother José (Nabil El Bouhairi) in a small flat. Close by is his African friend Adama (Ibrahim Koma) and his equally poor family of father (Makan Fofana), mother (Marie-Philomène Nga) and sister Fanta (Hawa Yakaré Sissoko). As school ends the kids whose families have money take them on a vacation, a state neither Lucien nor Adama can afford despite their obsession with that luxury. The two boys manipulate funds and ideas and ultimately come up with the idea of secretly jumping aboard a RUV of a family headed for the beach. BUT despite the success of their plan and the encouragement of the daughter of the van's owners, the boys end up not at the beach but at a nudist camp, a fact that makes them flee! Upon returning home both boys' families punish their activities and when Lucien seeks comfort from his older brother, José beats him and tells ... Read More
Rating:  - A Must See!
A profoundly poignant and thought provoking French coming of age drama about two young youths desperately in need of time away from their poverty stricken homes. The performances by the two males leads are unforgettable and the writing and direction is top notch. The score for the film (particularly its theme song) is quite a effective as is also the cinematography.
Rating: - Donne-moi des vacances!
Two friends from a French inner-city dream of getting away to the sunshine. They try various means of raising money and stowing away in caravans and coaches to half live out their dream. This is set against their relationships with their families (petty criminal brother, loving mothers etc.).
Contains some genuinely amusing moments as well as the tristesse of their lives.
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